Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping
Picnic · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Posted 12 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Picnic's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Picnic's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Picnic
- low 0 stale, 4 reposted of 312 open
- Hiring momentum
- 403 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Picnic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Picnic.
About this role
As a Staff AI Engineer for Agentic Shopping at Picnic, you will lead the technical direction and architecture for a grocery shopping assistant that enhances customer experience through intelligent, multi-turn conversational AI. Your responsibilities include solving complex production challenges, mentoring engineers, and establishing evaluation and safety mechanisms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless user experience.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Picnic as an employer.
What you need
- Proven track record of taking complex multi-turn conversational AI systems from architectural design to high-scale production
- Experience training, fine-tuning, and optimizing open-weight LLMs for production deployment
- Hands-on expertise building production RAG systems, context management, and state handling for multi-turn dialogues
- Experience designing robust evaluation loops, continuous monitoring systems, and automated safety/guardrail mechanisms for customer-facing applications
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction, perform design reviews, and mentor engineering teams without relying on hierarchy
- Strong Python skills and demonstrated ability to choose and productionize appropriate model, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation and inference tooling
Nice to have
- Experience taking retrieval, ranking or recommendation models from problem definition to measurable production impact
- In-depth expertise in deep learning for sequence modelling, representation learning, or retrieval and ranking
- A degree in Computer Science, AI (or a related field), a PhD, open-source contributions, or peer-reviewed research
What you get
- Team activities including board game evenings, after-work drinks, and company ski trips
- Opportunity to drive your own projects in a startup environment
- Fresh lunches, coffee, and snacks provided in the office
- Health insurance discount and bike plan
- Relocation support including flight costs, first month's rent, and moving costs up to €2000
- 25 holidays, travel expense coverage, pension plan, and company-provided phone and laptop
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on technical leadership and mentoring may require significant experience and confidence
- Role involves high responsibility in a startup environment which can be fast-paced and demanding
Summarised from Picnic's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Picnic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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